Free workshop on ‘Using historical census data for research’, 23 October www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Free workshop (two afternoons) on ‘Getting started with open LLMs for humanities research’, 6-7 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

London - England & Wales second most populous region, according to Google's AI overview

🚀 We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new UK Data Service Data Catalogue! This updated data catalogue has been designed with user feedback at its core to make finding and working with data faster and easier. 🔗 ukdataservice.ac.uk/2025/10/08/l...

Yesterday the Royal Society held a series of panels & keynotes in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test. The unanimous critical takes on AGI, big tech's power concentration & the call for urgent action left me w hope things might be turning Watch here m.youtube.com/live/GmnBTCK...

THREAD: There are a lot of unanswered questions 12 hours after President Trump — who, according to the Constitution, has no final authority over the census — released a social media post calling for unprecedented changes to how the government produces data that forms the foundation of U.S. democracy

Can you help with the redevelopment of the Health Survey for England and future collection of population health data? The ONS has re-opened a questionnaire to gather feedback until 25 July: studies.ons.gov.uk/s/Future_HSE/ Find out more about discussions at our recent conference: lnkd.in/eua8-2Bt

The Government have now "commissioned the Office for National Statistics to conduct a mandatory, questionnaire-based, whole-population census of England and Wales in 2031" Yay for fans of censuses! A good time to repost my blog following the recommendation a few weeks ago

Pleased to have the opportunity to talk about user needs at the joint @bspsuk.bsky.social @ukdataservice.bsky.social @celsiusnews.bsky.social ONS meeting on the future of UK Demographic data This slide from Jason Zawadski on the (recommended) 2031 Census as a vital national asset

The Future of the UK Demographic System conference, organised between the British Society for Population Studies (BSPS), Office for National Statistics, the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support (CeLSIUS) and the UK Data Service, hosted at @ucl.ac.uk, is currently underway.

How much will the ethnic profile of the UK change from migration and natural change over the next one hundred years? Will 'White British' become a minority? I've tried to have a look at the data on this - and I didn't find what I thought I would. georginasturge.substack.com/p/will-white...

The @ukdataservice.bsky.social’s Labour Force and Annual Populations User Conference 2025 is now underway, with a packed room of intrigued attendees. The keynote speaker - @heejungchung.bsky.social has been providing fascinating insights into her global research on the impact of remote working.

Well folks, looks like we are having another census 💃🏻 UK Stats Authority is officially endorsing it. Now ministers need to consider the recommendation and decide. Admin data is still the way of the future - but we're not done with the census yet. uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/...

News about 'the next UK Census' - a blog by me on today's announcements by ONS, NRS and NISRA recommending a full #census in 2031 blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/future-of-20... @ukdataservice.bsky.social @celsiusnews.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @bspsuk.bsky.social

🚨New on the Data Impact blog🚨 The UK Statistics Agency (and their Scottish and Northern Irish counterparts) have made their recommendations to the @ukgovernment.bsky.social about the future of the 2031 #census @oliverdw.bsky.social explores further blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/future-of-20...

As we approach the end of the UK Data Service's UK Census User Conference 2025, which has been very successful, attendees have enjoyed hearing from inspirational speakers, who work for the Royal British Legion, talking about how they have used Census data to help improve the lives of veterans.

During the final talks in our research paper sessions, we featured a number of fascinating speakers talking about their work using Census data, including Katrin Metsis, from the University of St Andrews, who spoke about her discoveries around gender inequality in general health among young people.

Momoko Nishikido, from Queen's University Belfast, spoke today about Census findings around ethnicity. Daniel Jones, from the UK Home Office, also spoke about Refugee Integration Outcomes (RIO) insights. Plus, Andreas Mastrosavvas, from UCL, explained how they help users with ONS Longitudinal Study.

On Day 2 of our UK Census User Conference 2025 we have started with two more parallel sessions. John Sanderson, the Deputy Director of the UK Data Service, has been chairing one of the sessions, which featured Alison Sizer, talking about 2021 Census linkages for researchers with a key ONS study.

Our Census experts, Professor Oliver Duke-Williams, Finn Dymond-Green and Vassilis Routsis, have just been updating attendees about their recent work on Census data, highlighting the wide range of practical resources available from the UK Data Service to assist researchers. #census

Mary Gregory, the Director of the Population Statistics Directorate from the Office for National Statistics, has been speaking about the organisation's approach to reporting on population and migration statistics from Census data, which is used by researchers to suggest Government policy changes.

Jen Hampton, the Head of Geospatial Analysis & Innovation at the Office for National Statistics, has been speaking about the organisation's work on Census geographies in the past, present and future, making it easier for researchers to conduct their work with the datasets.

Delighted to introduce @jenitennison.com of @connectedbydata.org as our keynote speaker at the 2025 UK Census User Conference Looking forward to two days of news and latest research using census data

Today is the big day for our UK Census User Conference 2025, held in Manchester and online. At 12.50pm the UK Data Service's Service Director for the Census, Professor Oliver-Duke Williams, will start the conference, followed by Matt Neale from the ESRC and Jeni Tennison from @connectedbydata.org

Hey IL folks! If you thought censorship was just impacting school librarians, take a look at my new article in @timeshighered.bsky.social exploring what challenges to intellectual freedom mean for HE teaching librarians, too. How do we shift our work from overload to absence?

Come and listen to updates, and have your say, on the the Future of Population Health Surveys - it's so important that the Government hears your views on this. There will also be research papers and updates on many other health data collections. Full programme available next week

There is much concern among universities about a levy on international student fees: an unexpected part of white paper on which the Treasury will consult. This is cutting across the relief about the government's bark being enormously worse than its bite on international students & post-study work

Thank you to @oliverdw.bsky.social & others who contributed advice on the data on age + service for this piece bsky.app/profile/sund...

This is very useful. I hadn't realised the female % is over 1/10. With gender ratio of 4:1 among the very old, this could makes the balance of surviving veterans among those aged 98+ something like 5000 men (out of 8000-9000 men over 98) and 3500-4000 women (out of 32k-36k women over 98)

Oliver Duke-Williams looked up 2021 census: in March 2021, there were 28,671 people in England and Wales who were aged 95+ and who reported armed forces service. This group was eligible by end WW2, some would have served later Census day was 21st March 2021, 4 years ago bsky.app/profile/oliv...

📻 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture 📻 🗓️ Date: 22 May 2025 🕕 Time: 6-8pm 📍 Location: @ucl.ac.uk Gustav Tuck Theatre 🔗 tinyurl.com/2p98nbdu Professor Julianne Nyhan explores how digital technologies are reshaping #oralHistory, raising urgent questions about structure, representation, and epistemology.

Plans being considered for National Data Library to monetise anonymised public health data, says DSIT Secretary www.techmonitor.ai/digital-econ... 🤑 FT interview with Peter Kyle www.ft.com/content/85d8... (£) #healthdata #datasharing #dataprotection #datapolicy

Big piece on how the UK is not getting the data it needs and how this is affecting policymaking. A key issue seems to be that the shift from surveys to admin data has not worked well as govt departments have not allowed the ONS access to the data it needs on.ft.com/3WSCN6h

Text Mining with tf-idf 4 April 2025, 2pm-4pm Tf-idf is an information retrieval method to extract distinctive keywords from documents. In this interactive workshop we will explore the possibilities and limitations of the technique. www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

🧵NEW: A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims against a backdrop of false balance. The NGO (Children's Health Defense) led by the current HHS Secretary until December 2024 is hosting content for the CDC clone. infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...

📢 Announcement! Save the Date! 📢 We are pleased to announce that in collaboration with @lselibrary.bsky.social and @crick.ac.uk library we are launching the first collaborative Open Science & Scholarship Festival in London! Watch this space for more information! blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

British Society for Population Studies statement on the removal of scientific and demographic data from US Government websites: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

Do you have questions about the UK Data Service Dissertation award? We've put together some key info on who can apply, how to submit your work, who the judges are, and much more in our useful FAQs: tinyurl.com/vbxj8dbn #UKDSDissertations

Review of issues currently facing the Office for National Statistics * Poor response rates for the LFS * Big change programme under way * Staff morale etc

Looking forward to watching the Michael Sheen doc about buying up and cancelling debt. Will it be as good as when Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell did it (with an exploding van) in 2021? blogs.ucl.ac.uk/dh/2021/05/2...

I'm a johnny-come-lately, and only have the 39 years of listening to this #SistersOfMercy

JUST IN: The Census Bureau's #2030Census Advisory Committee has been terminated by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who oversees the bureau, Arturo Vargas, the committee's chair, confirms to @npr.org. I've reached out to the press offices of the bureau and the Commerce Department for comment...

Really shocking from the National Library of Australia. Tim's digital work is so fantastic but it's facilitated by OA to this corpus of newspapers. If other libraries follow suit, work like @ryancordell.org's will be threatened too. Stunningly bad. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/03/02/t...

🚨NEW on the Data Impact blog 🚨 Vanessa Higgins, Director of User Support & Training at @ukdataservice.bsky.social, shares about a new project that seeks to develop computational skills in social science data services Read it here: blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/boosting-com... @vanessahiggins.bsky.social

Applications are open for our William Guy Lectureships! The theme is Statistics and AI - its role in daily life, ethical issues, & environmental impact. If you're a data professional with a passion for inspiring the next generation about stats submit a talk proposal! rss.org.uk/news-publica...

This should be changed asap. If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...

Non-zero chance that they inadvertently delete any file containing the names 'Deirdre' or 'Tobias'? Not, I'll admit, the hottest take to be had #OhDear #Scunthorpe

It’s that time of year again, #LoveData25 is here! There's no better time to engage with the wider data community and learn new skills. Read more about what we can offer at our website: ukdataservice.ac.uk/2025/02/10/l...

Here it comes: what is a trusted repository in the age of fascism?